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Re: The Last Word I never saw the movie, actually. Just a few bits of him getting poked in the teeth.

Re: The Last Word I dealt with Army dentists for a while in my youth. Different in detail, still not wonderful.

Re: Answers & Questions

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat During your vasectomy.

Re: The Last Word Sorry. Didn't mean to impute anything there.

Re: The cranky thread I wonder if they realized when they set it up that they were scheduling a kick-off meeting for 3:30 PM on the Friday before a 3-day weekend. It's likely to be a Charlie Brown style kick-off.

Re: The Last Word I manage to do ok with "square center" round toothpicks. I think only one new filling in the last 15 years or so.

Re: The Last Word No, sorry to say. In one set of cranial openings and out another, I fear.

Re: Star System Generation (Now at the RIGHT place :/) Looks real nice. Probably most of my comments reflect your source material rather than anything else. * If the atmosphere has oxygen, then methane is going to be at most a trace constituent. The reverse is also true. * At high temperatures, water can be an important atmosphere gas. * In what units are the planetary density? Tons/m^3 is what I'd expect, but looking at your numbers, it seems more likely to be relative to the Earth. * Unless they are very cold, terrestrial-mass planets cannot retain hydrogen and helium in their atmospheres for very long. * Tidal locking and orbit circularization tend to go together, though Earth's Moon is a prominent exception to this. The processes that give you tidal locking also work to circularize the orbit, and also (to a lesser extent) make the orbit coplanar with the main planet's equator. These processes operate most strongly on close moons and in systems with large planet/moon mass ratios. * I think you might be able to fake up terrain features and planetary resources via an ad hoc planetary heat reservoir relation. Small bodies tend to lose heat quickly, their geological activity halts, and their surfaces become dominated by impact cratering and interesting mineral deposits stop being produced. Other annoyances as I think of them

Re: The Last Word Toothpicks, not floss. My molars are so jammed together the floss breaks rather than get in where it can work.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Remember Blanche Knott? That's an old nom de plume of L. Marcus's.

Re: The Last Word I am too (my principal oral hygiene is with toothpicks, with which I do well), but onions are an item where those are inadequate.

Re: The Last Word My wife doesn't like raw onion except in a few specific things. When I indulge myself with raw onion in other things, I have to make more certain than usual to brush my teeth shortly afterward, if possible.

Re: The Last Word Cooked onion and raw onion are quite different. I like raw onion on my hamburgers, hot dogs, etc., but I seem to be in a minority there.

Re: The Last Word Which is why we try to have them down to our place fairly often. We can make stuff for each of them.

Re: The Last Word And her husband: he cooks for both of them, so it's only when they eat out that he gets any food with taste.

Re: The Last Word I feel the same way.

Re: The Last Word Snicker. Actually, one of my mothers-in-law refuses to eat just about anything with seasoning. Apparently anything with onions messes her up something fierce.

Re: The Last Word Actually, it tends to fall faster than that. More like an acorn.

Re: The Last Word Of course, you do hit times when motivation plummets uncontrollably no matter what.

Re: Airlocks are for losers I'm not sure how. Temperature is an absolute scale, in the sense that you can tell the heat content of things by the black-body radiation they give off. Energy flow by conduction scales as temperature difference and by contact area, so the only way heat flow would kill you is if you got a good, full-body contact with something really hot or really cold. I admit you can burn yourself fatally with fairly modest temperature differences (scalding sets in fast, e.g.), though. Electrical potentials are another thing. In principle you could have substantial electric charges built up on objects in space, and grabbing a nice metal hull which happens to have a big charge on it might be lethal. I'd have to look stuff up and push numbers around to decide whether that was a serious concern, but the experiences of human space efforts so far suggest it isn't. Otherwise there'd be something more made of docking with ISS, for example, and bleeding off charge and electrical potential differences early in the docking process.

Re: What gives the "rightful" king the right?

Re: The Last Word Yeah, you use what works.

Re: Super tech effects on the world at large. For true evil, all SCIENCE! items need to have at least one subtle, long-term lasting or developing side effect. Coin-size atomic last-forever batteries? Turns out they are weak radiation sources that cause sterility if you keep one on your person for several hours a day, five days a week. High-powered plasma weapons? The muzzle flash puts minute amounts of cumulative toxins into the soil, so battlefields become uninhabitable. Power armor? Lack of adequate redundancy feedback in the control systems leads to them become increasingly inaccurate as they are used in the field, with one possible catastrophic failure mode being the suit tears itself apart (and its passenger) because the two legs misapply the windage corrections independently and jump in different directions to get someplace. Sonic weapons? As the ultrasonic oscillators get mistuned with stress and use, they start broadcasting power in glass-breaking frequencies all around the weapons. Oh, and the local animals would all go berserk, too.

Re: Need ideas for Steampunk Over-The-Top Game There is nothing so over the top that it cannot be raised even more over the top by addition of rocket-propelled chainsaws.